About

Vairavan Lakshmanan is an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer with a strong background in website development. He currently works as a Senior Engineer I at Kaplan Test Prep, where he has implemented skills in Angular, NgRX, RxJS, NX architecture, Apollo GraphQL, AWS services, NodeJS, GoLang, and PostgresDB to add new features and enhance the already existing ones for the in-house application for the North American Education domain. Vairavan has complete knowledge of different personas like Author, Admin, and Students used in the application. He has also worked on PoCs to include new features like Discussion Forums and ChatBots to the application. Vairavan is a skilled professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Karpagam College Of Engineering. He has over 6 years of relevant experience, including his past role as a Senior Project Engineer at Soliton Technologies. At Soliton Technologies, Vairavan worked on a web application that helps cross-discipline user maintenance datasheet, verification and validation compliance standard, and product status as part of their new development process. His responsibilities included analyzing requirements, allocating tasks, development and testing, reviewing and assisting in performing technical bid analysis, calculating risks during project development, and managing risks throughout projects. Vairavan also contributed to the continuous improvement of the development process and mentored junior developers for on-boarding. He worked with the back-end team to construct APIs using HTML5, CSS3, Angular5 (with RxJS + ngRx). Vairavan's technical skills include Javascript, AngularJS, Angular 8, RxJS, ngRx, NodeJS, AWS, Jenkins, Golang, and more. He is a strong team player who has conducted sessions on Git and NGRX to transfer knowledge and expertise within the team. Vairavan has also participated in design discussions, architectural discussions, and release planning. He has led a few releases of niche features in the application and reviewed the code developed by juniors and peers. Overall, Vairavan is a skilled engineer who is passionate about website development and has a strong track record of delivering high-quality work.